2025 John J. Winkler Memorial Prize
John J. Winkler Memorial Trust
The winner of the 2025 Winkler Memorial Prize is Thu Truong, a graduate student at Princeton University, for the essay "Ocean Vuong, Intertextuality, and the Limits of Interpretation." This year the jury has also awarded an honorable mention to Kit Pyne-Jaeger of Columbia University for "Something Got Out from Inside the Story: Iphigenia's Sacrifice and the Incontinent Architecture of Aeschylus' Agamemnon."
The Prize is intended to honor the memory of John J. (“Jack”) Winkler, a classical scholar, teacher, and political activist for radical causes both within and outside the academy, who died of AIDS in 1990 at the age of 46. Jack believed that the profession as a whole discourages young scholars from exploring neglected or disreputable topics, and from applying unconventional or innovative methods to their scholarship. He wished to be remembered by means of an annual Prize that would encourage such efforts.
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